Word: metallism
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...showed up to protest a meeting of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, Ramsey was ready. Police using pepper spray arrested 630 protesters Saturday (including a Washington Post photographer) and another 40 early Sunday. They also conducted raids, confiscating dozens of the metal "sleeping dragons" protesters use to lock their arms to form human chains, and fire marshals declared the warehouse where the demonstrators had set up their command post a fire hazard and shut it down...
...status of hardcore ringmaster Korn was even more precarious. The explosion of grunge sent dark, disturbing, angry metal back into the goth-loving, cape-wearing, motorcycle riding, Dungeons and Dragons playing pit from whence it came. An early release by Kid Rock (you thought Devil Without a Cause was his first album?) got hammered by the angstful, flanneled, head-banging juggernaut that was "Here we are now, entertain us." But Mr. Hick-Hop was not the only rocker that suffered. Metallica was temporarily uncool and Megadeth was mega-dead. Meanwhile, Korn was chillin' on the West Coast in Bakersfield, Calif...
However, all these signs are made harder to read by the large metal bars over the windows...
...renovated dining halls now has a brand name, as the soda machines and the potato chips have had on a regular basis. And, of course, in the Harvard T stop, first cnet.com and now American Express have invaded, monopolizing the traditional advertising spaces, pasting posters to the metal beams and spelling out the product name across the turnstiles...
...importance of the investment is finally dawning on China's threadbare state-owned enterprises. At CEIBS, nearly half the executive M.B.A. students are funded by state firms like China Non-Ferrous Metal Industry and China Eastern Airlines. The very notion of such specialized training is something of a social revolution. In the past, managers at state enterprises worked their way up the factory line to an office after a couple decades of dedicated but not necessarily distinguished service. "I have committed 13 years to my company," says Hou Yunfu, 35, an engineer whose ceibs tuition is paid by China National...